Re: Right and left liberal and conservative

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Fri May 16 2003 - 14:04:43 MDT

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    > (Lee Corbin <lcorbin@tsoft.com>):
    >
    > Well, I will readily admit that the *reason* conservatives are
    > against the EPA is mainly because of further and additional
    > changes that this agency would like to make. And so, yes, the
    > "changes" that the opponents of the EPA would like to restore
    > the status quo ante.

    Let's not forget our history: the EPA was created by a republican
    congress under a republican President, and was an outgrowth of
    the "convservation" movement that was decidedly conservative (in
    the dictionary sense of the word). What happened is that later
    administrations seized its power and used it to regulate big
    business to death, and spun the rhetoric that industry and
    technology were anti-environment, and the public bought it.
    Conservatives are against what it became, not what it was.

    -- 
    Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
    "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
    are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
    for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
    


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